Home Brew is more fun when you give it a DIY twist

I write regarding the News in Pictures section (DW 1 September), with some amusement!

For my client project for Coors Brewers at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in June, I too designed a brand called Home Brew.

Whereas the brand for The Living Room bar took the name literally, with wallpaper imagery and flying ceramic ducks, the brand I created (below) plays on ‘home brew’ light-heartedly, as the beer that naughty boys make in their garden shed.

The underlying theme was of Englishness, hence the archaic bottle, but the humour lies in the logo – it’s from the perspective of someone intoxicated in their garden, looking up at the watering can in front of him, the grass on the side leading to the shed…

Kitty Lam, by e-mail